Trace-carrier



'NITED STATES .PATENT Fries.

TRACE-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 382,709, dated May 1S,1888.

Application filed February 14, 188B. Serial No..263,982. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that LOLIVER LLANGWORTHY, acitizen of the United States of America, residing at Nortonville, in thecounty of J efferson and State of Kansas, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Harness Attachments, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention pertains to certain new and useful improvements inharness attachments, l having'reference more particularly to` meansforsecuring holdback and hip straps together, whereby said straps 4arerigidly secured and i5 held as against displacement, and the quantity ofmaterial required in said straps is greatly reduced.

Theinvention comprises the detail,construc tion, combination, andarrangement of parts,

2o substantially as .hereinafter fully set forth, and particularlypointed out in the claims, whereby a harness attachment is obtained thatembodies advantages in point of simplicity, durability, and generalefficiency.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a view in perspective of myinvention. Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is a longi` tudinalsectional view. Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view on theline x w, Fig. 2.Figs. 5 and '6 are views showing the inner faces of the opposite platesof my attachment or securing device. Fig. 7 is a view of a modification.

Referring to the drawings, A designates my improved harness attachmentor securing device,which is designed to secure and rigidly hold inposition the ends of what are commonly called holdback and"hipstraps;and the invention is likewise applicable to other straps of theharness.. This securing device comprises a lower or inner plate, a, ofany desired shape, but preferably of the skeleton formation shown, andfrom the upper surface of this plate project a series of short posts .orstuds, a. A short post or stud, a2, projects from the upper side of aninwardly-projecting portion of this lower plate, a, as shown.

B is the upper or outer plate, preferably of the same formation orgeneral outline as .the plate a, and in its under side are formed a se-50 ries of grooves or recesses, b,wherein are designed to projectvtheshort posts or studs a. In the ends of these corresponding plates a andB are formed coincident screw holes or apertures b b,wherein areinserted screws c c',- for holding said plates together.

From the upper or outer surface of the plate B project two parallelapproximately U -shaped inclined hooks, D D, to which .isdesigned to besecured the tugs of the harness.

In practice the strap E is secured between 6o A the plates a B by meansof the short posts'or studs projecting through holes or aperturespreviously formed in said strap and entering the grooves or recesses b,and by the screw C, inserted through a corresponding hole or aperture insaid strap, whereby the two'plates firmly hold said strap, which, whendesired, can be removed by removing said screw.

The strap E, which is preferably'provided with a widened projectingpad-like strap, e', 7o against the outer surface of which the secur ingdevice is designed to bear, is secured in position between the plates bymeans of the short post or stud at, projecting through an aperturethereof, and the screw O inserted in 7 5 its apertures, whereby saidplates at this end` rmly hold said strap. This strap E, it is obvious,can be readily removed by simply removing the retaining-screw C'.

Inv Fig. 7 I have shown a modified form of 8o my'finvention, whichconsists simply in dispensing with 4the hooks D for the tugs, the sameto be used .when a tug-carrier is not desired.

From the foregoing description vit will be seen that by means of myinvention the ends of the straps ofthe harness can be readily and easilysecured, and by means thereof the quantity of material necessary in eachstrapis reduced to a minimum, which is a desideratum 9o in this class ofinventions.

1. The combinatiomwith thelower plate having a series of posts or studs,the upper plate provided'with coincident grooves or recesses, 95 l andthe straps secured between said plates, of a pad secured at one end ytoone of said straps and adapted to rest against the face of the lowerplate, substantially as set forth.

2. As an improvement in harness attach Ioo (N Model.) Y* ,I l I2S-heets-Sheet 2.

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"TRACE GARRIBM 10.382,709; Patented May l145, 1888.*

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